Friday, June 28, 2013

My mega talented buddy, Paul Richards is setting up a sweet art book so I started a submission. I will post some work in progress images as I find time to work on it over the next month.

STEP 1: Simple thumbnail sketch. I do a few really rough sketches focusing on proportions and pose. I try to do a sketch in under a minute then move on to the next one. When I spend more time on them, I start losing the initial dynamic forms.

STEP 2: Then I scale it up, lower the opacity and do quick refining line drawing pass. I normally try not to spend more than 15 min. on this stage. Keep it quick and dirty.

STEP 3: The I hide the under sketch (but never delete it) and do a quick value blockin to push the basic forms. I did this one in about 5 min.

I try to get through step 2 and 3 very quickly so I don't get tied down to anything. Now that I have the basics in, I can decide more specifics like: 'Where does this break? Where do I need to adjust proportions? Where is the light source? Who drank all my soda?' etc.

Monday, June 24, 2013

I was messing with a stylized face study and I decided to try to turn it into a LOL champ. Sona was my first chioce, but that just turned out to be far too creepy. So I shifted to a more animated fellow, Draven. Once I got him in there, I decided to bend his hair and neck into a macaroni noodle shape... why not.